Stormy Daniels to attend court hearing on FBI raid of Trump's lawyer

17/04/2018

The new filing was part of a court case claiming that either Cohen's legal team or a special master should play the primary role in initially deciding which of the materials seized in the April 9 raid are protected by attorney-client privilege, instead of leaving it to prosecutors.

President Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen are in the process of fighting the government's review of files the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized pursuant to search warrants on Cohen's office and home. The taint team would be allowed to object to any of the documents that the president claims privilege on. Trump - having retained a new personal attorney last week - has sought to intervene in the matter.

The raid on Cohen's home and office came as special counsel Robert Mueller's probe intensifies its focus on the president's inner circle. "Attorney client privilege is dead", he exclaimed. It's supposed to prevent "privileged" information from being used against the client. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is himself a former USA attorney, explained the concept in an interview on "Good Morning America" on ABC. Any disputes about what material was or wasn't covered by the attorney-client privilege would then be decided by a judge, under the president's proposal.

Who's on the taint team?

At issue is who controls the process of winnowing out legal communications from business matters, determining what is relevant to the investigation, and identifying what is privileged and what is unprivileged because it involves crime or fraud - and how long the process takes. But the president's lawyers are suggesting the taint team proposed by prosecutors might be compromised.

In Stewart's case, which also took place in the Southern District of NY, her lawyers successfully objected to federal prosecutors using a "taint team" to review her attorney's files, and the court allowed a neutral special master to review the documents, also allowing Stewart's team to review the documents as well.

Cohen's lawyers were required by a federal judge in NY to disclose the names of his clients Monday as part of an argument over attorney-client privilege and how it applies to records seized from Cohen last week by the FBI.

Prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation of Cohen are reportedly interested in payoffs to another woman, who said she had an affair with Trump, as well as Cohen's business interests.

An adult film star who says she was paid to keep quiet about an affair with US President Donald Trump has arrived at a court hearing for his lawyer.

They said that Cohen had at least 10 clients in 2017 and 2018, and that he did "traditional legal tasks" for three of them, including Trump, Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy and a third who asked not to be named.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has responded on Twitter and to the press with characteristic anger, calling the raid a "break-in", and an "attack on our country in a true sense". He wrote "I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken".

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